Children, Childhoods and Global Politics

J. Marshall Beier, Helen Berents, J. Marshall Beier, Helen Berents

• Publisher: Bristol University Press
• Year: 2023
• ISBN:
  9781529232325
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: International Relations
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Though children have never been absent from international studies discourse, they are too often reduced to a few simplistic and unidimensional framings. This book seeks to recover children's agency and to recognize the complex variety of childhoods and the global issues that affect them. Written by an international list of contributors from Europe, Africa, North America, and Australasia, chapters present highly nuanced accounts of children and childhoods across global political time and space split into three broad sections: imagined childhoods, governed childhoods, and lived childhoods.

Through its analysis, the book demonstrates how international relations is, somewhat paradoxically, quite deeply invested in a particular rendering of childhood as, primarily, a time of innocence, vulnerability, and incapacity.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Notes on Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Children and Childhoods in Global Political Perspective
• Part I Imagined Childhoods
• Part II Governed Childhoods
• Part III Lived Childhoods
• Index